Cooper: Diane, last night I dreamed I was eating a large, tasteless gumdrop, and awoke to discover I was chewing on one of my foam disposable earplugs. Perhaps I should consider moderating my nighttime coffee consumption.
-- "Twin Peaks"

Search This Blog

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Cary Grant Project

Today's entry is a pretty domestic-related film: "Penny Serenade". It's all about Cary Grant and Irene Dunne's marital woes and depressing life, centered around their hope of having a child. This one's got a couple of themes familiar from other lesser-known Cary Grant movies: divorce and adoption. Hmm. All 3 of his movies with Irene Dunne involved some kind of marital problems. But this one's got depression and despair sprinkled liberally throughout.


  1. "North By Northwest", 1959, also starring Eva Marie Saint and James Mason
  2. "Bringing Up Baby", 1938, also starring Katharine Hepburn
  3. "Charade", 1963, also starring Audrey Hepburn
  4. "The Philadelphia Story", 1940, also starring Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart
  5. "The Awful Truth", 1937, also starring Irene Dunne
  6. "Notorious", 1946, also starring Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains
  7. "His Girl Friday", 1940, also starring Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy
  8. "People Will Talk", 1951, also starring Hume Cronyn
  9. "Houseboat", 1958, also starring Sophia Loren
  10. "My Favorite Wife", 1940, also starring Irene Dunne
  11. "Father Goose", 1964, also starring Leslie Caron
  12. "Indiscreet", 1958, also starring Ingrid Bergman
  13. "Suspicion", 1941, also starring Joan Fontaine
  14. "The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer", 1947, also starring Myrna Loy
  15. "An Affair To Remember", 1957, also starring Deborah Kerr
  16. "To Catch A Thief", 1955, also starring Grace Kelly
  17. "The Talk Of The Town", 1942, also starring Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman
  18. "That Touch Of Mink", 1962, also starring Doris Day and Gig Young
  19. "Operation Petticoat", 1959, also starring Tony Curtis
  20. "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944, also starring Raymond Massey
  21. "The Bishop's Wife", 1947, also starring Loretta Young and David Niven
  22. "Monkey Business", 1952, also starring Ginger Rogers
  23. "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House", 1948, also starring Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas
  24. "Walk Don't Run", 1966
  25. "Destination Tokyo", 1943, also starring John Garfield
  26. "Only Angels Have Wings", 1939, also starring Jean Arthur
  27. "I Was A Male War Bride", 1949, also starring Ann Sheridan
  28. "Once Upon A Honeymoon", 1942, also starring Ginger Rogers
  29. "In Name Only", 1939, also starring Carole Lombard
  30. "Topper", 1937, also starring Constance Bennett
  31. "The Grass Is Greener", 1960, also starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
  32. "Kiss Them For Me", 1957, also starring Jayne Mansfield, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer
  33. "Penny Serenade", 1941, also starring Irene Dunne
  34. "Night And Day", 1946, also starring Alexis Smith
  35. "The Howards Of Virginia", 1940, also starring Martha Scott
  36. "Room For One More", 1952, also starring Betsy Drake
  37. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
  38. "I'm No Angel", 1933, also starring Mae West
  39. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  40. "None But The Lonely Heart", 1944, also starring Ethel Barrymore
  41. "She Done Him Wrong", 1933, also starring Mae West
  42. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren
at 3:56 PM
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)